Collaborative Governance a New Era of Public Policy in Australia?

Collaborative Governance A new era of public policy in Australia? Collaborative Governance A new era of public policy in Australia? Edited by Janine O’Flynn and John Wanna Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: [email protected] This title is also available online at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/collab_gov_citation.html National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Collaborative governance : a new era of public policy in Australia? / editors, Janine O’Flynn ; John Wanna. ISBN: 9781921536403 (pbk.) 9781921536410 (pdf) Series: ANZSOG series. Subjects: Public administration--Australia. Australia--Politics and government. Other Authors/Contributors: O’Flynn, Janine. Wanna, John. Dewey Number: 351.94 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design by John Butcher Printed by University Printing Services, ANU Funding for this monograph series has been provided by the Australia and New Zealand School of Government Research Program. This edition © 2008 ANU E Press John Wanna, Series Editor Professor John Wanna is the Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration at the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. He is the director of research for the Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). He is also a joint appointment with the Department of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University and a principal researcher with two research centres: the Governance and Public Policy Research Centre and the nationally- funded Key Centre in Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University. Professor Wanna has produced around 17 books including two national text books on policy and public management. He has produced a number of research-based studies on budgeting and financial management including: Budgetary Management and Control (1990); Managing Public Expenditure (2000), From Accounting to Accountability (2001) and, most recently, Controlling Public Expenditure (2003). He has just completed a study of state level leadership covering all the state and territory leaders — entitled Yes Premier: Labor leadership in Australia’s states and territories — and has edited a book on Westminster Legacies in Asia and the Pacific —Westminster Legacies: Democracy and responsible government in Asia and the Pacific. He was a chief investigator in a major Australian Research Council funded study of the Future of Governance in Australia (1999-2001) involving Griffith and the ANU. His research interests include Australian and comparative politics, public expenditure and budgeting, and government-business relations. He also writes on Australian politics in newspapers such as The Australian, Courier-Mail and The Canberra Times and has been a regular state political commentator on ABC radio and TV. Table of Contents Contributors ix Preface xi Allan Fels Editors’ introduction xv Part 1. Setting the scene: challenges and prospects for collaboration 1. Collaborative government: meanings, dimensions, drivers and 3 outcomes John Wanna 2. Governing through collaboration 13 Peter Shergold 3. The changing nature of government: network governance 23 William D. Eggers 4. Doing Things Collaboratively: Realizing the Advantage or 29 Succumbing to Inertia? Chris Huxham and Siv Vangen 5. Hit or myth? Stories of collaborative success 45 Chris Huxham and Paul Hibbert 6. Collaborative governance: the community sector and collaborative 51 network governance Paul Smyth Part 2. The reality of collaboration: success, failure, challenges and questions 7. What works and why: collaborating in a crisis 61 Shane Carmody 8. Collaboration in education 67 Rachel Hunter 9. From collaboration to coercion: a story of governance failure, 75 success and opportunity in Australian Indigenous affairs Diane Smith 10. The PPP phenomenon: performance and governance insights 93 Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve vii Collaborative Governance 11. Perspectives of community organisations: The Smith Family 113 experience Elaine Henry 12. Collaborative approaches to ‘people-based’ and ‘place-based’ 121 issues in Victoria Jane Treadwell 13. Formal collaboration, collaborative councils and community 127 engagement Margaret Allison 14. Collaborative democracy: the citizen’s ability to collaborate 137 effectively Louise Sylvan Part 3. Collaboration abroad: comparative perspectives 15. Galvanising government–non-profit/voluntary sector relations: 149 two Canadian cases to consider Evert Lindquist 16. Collaboration with the third sector: UK perspectives 171 Ben Jupp Part 4. Collaboration: rhetoric and reality 17. Elusive appeal or aspirational ideal? The rhetoric and reality of 181 the ‘collaborative turn’ in public policy Janine O’Flynn 18. Postscript 197 Peter Shergold viii.

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